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Health & Well-Being with YogaA Child’s Perspective
Institute of Inner-sciences
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Contents of Presentation
Current Challenges
Yoga – An Established Wellness Solution
The Impact of Yoga
Yoga for Beginners: Overview, Opportunity, Content
Benefits of Yoga for Beginners
Success Stories
Our Partners
About Isha, Sadhguru, and Social Outreach
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Current Challenges
Stress in young children is associated with health issues. [1]
Anxiety disorders affect one in eight children and often co-occur with
depression, eating disorders, ADHD, and others. [2]
In a nationally-representative study of youth, 20.1% reported being
bullied at school and 32.8% reported being in a physical fight. [3]
Childhood obesity rates have tripled in the U.S over the past three
decades. One out of six children is obese [4]
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There is an Urgent need to Enhance the
Well-being of Children
Yoga and Meditation are established wellness solutions
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The Impact of Yoga
Source: http://www.yoga4classrooms.com/supporting-research
Medical studies have shown that yoga and meditation can:
Reduce anger and
depression
Ease anxiety and
eliminate stress -
naturally
Enhance focus, attention,
concentration &
comprehension
Cultivate psychological
and physiological
balance
Promote a more
relaxed, comfortable
state of being
Enhance flexibility,
strength, & physical
well-being
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For children ages 7 and up.
Workshop offers simple yoga
postures to bring stability and
balance to the system.
Upon completion, all participants will
have a yoga practice to take home
to experience the benefits of yoga.
Yoga for Beginners – Program Overview
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Isha can conduct Yoga for Beginners
workshops for teachers & students.
Isha can also train teachers and
students to present yoga sessions.
No prior experience of yoga
is required.
Yoga for Beginners – The Opportunity
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Yoga for Beginners - Content
Yoga sessions include:
Introduction to yoga and its
benefits
Guided practices with instructions
Q&A
Click here to view the Upa Yoga practices imparted in
Yoga For Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JwKSckecB_c?rel=0&autoplay=1
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The Benefits of Well-Being
“The first and foremost thing we need to work at is
to make a human being peaceful and joyful.
This will invariably happen if you do the right kind
of yoga.” - Sadhguru
Benefits of Yoga For Beginners: Can relieve stress, anxiety and tension
Strengthens the spine and activates
lumbar region of the spine
Body will feel more rested, alert and
focused
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Success Stories
Increase in academic and attendance performance.
Decrease in the number of suspensions.[5]
Decrease in hyperactivity and impulsivity, increase
in self-control and attention spans, and a reduction
in anxiety leading to higher IQ scores.[6][7][8]
Relief in tiredness, improvement in physical health,
sharper concentration, enhanced mental clarity, and
better interpersonal relationships.[9][10]
See References for listing of research articles.
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Our Partners
Many universities, corporations and health care facilities have hosted our workshops.
Tuck School of Business
Stanford University
Wharton School
Northwestern University
University of Michigan
Vanderbilt University
Harvard
Emory
Vanderbilt
Starbucks
Hewlett Packard
Raytheon
GM
Ford
JP Morgan Chase
Bank of America
Pfizer
Henry Ford Hospital
McGraw Hill
Google
Cisco
Microsoft
IBM
Time Warner
FedEx
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Isha - Enhancing Wellbeing for over 30 years
Isha Foundation, established over 30 years
ago, is an international non-profit organization
promoting health and well-being through yoga
and meditation.
Isha’s unique approach has gained worldwide
recognition and reflects in Isha Foundation's
special consultative status with the Economic and
Social Council of the United Nations.
Isha Institute of Inner-sciences is Isha’s national
headquarters located in McMinnville, TN.
Isha programs have touched the lives of
over 7 million people worldwide.
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Sadhguru, founder of Isha Foundation, is a contemporary
yogi rooted as strongly in worldly and pragmatic matters as
he is in inner experience and wisdom.
Sadhguru Vasudev
Recent Awards
Indira Gandhi Award, India’s highest
award for environmental work in
recognition of Project GreenHands
Sport for the Environment Award by
Beyond Sport in Chicago for Project
GreenHands
Speaking Engagements
World Economic Forum, Davos
Australian Leadership Retreat
Tallberg Forum
World Presidents’ Organization
TED
Tuck School of Business
British House of Lords
Media Interviews
Forbes
The New York Times
BBC
Bloomberg
CNNI
CNBC
Sadhguru has served as a delegate to the United Nations
Millennium Peace Summit and the World Peace Congress. His public talks frequently draw
crowds of over 100,000 people.
Named one of India’s 50 most influential people, he has
addressed prominent global forums on issues as diverse as
socio-economic development, leadership, and well-being.
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Isha Care Clinic (www.ishacare.org) – Providing free primary and preventive
care to uninsured, low income residents in areas of rural Tennessee.
Isha Vidhya (www.ishavidhya.org) – A pioneering English language,
computer-oriented education initiative in rural Southern India.
Project GreenHands (www.projectgreenhands.org) – A massive public
reforestation effort in India aiming to plant 114 million trees as fast as possible.
856,587 trees were planted by 256,289 people on a single day in 2006,
achieving a Guinness World Book of Records.
Action for Rural Rejuvenation (www.ruralrejuvenation.org) – A rural
revitalization program offering medical care, community rehabilitation and
human upliftment to more than 2,500 destitute South Indian villages.
Isha Social Outreach Projects
Isha has implemented several large-scale human service projects for
education reform, environmental stewardship, as well as holistic and
healthy living.
http://www.ishacare.org/http://www.ishavidhya.org/http://www.projectgreenhands.org/http://www.ruralrejuvenation.org/
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Thank You
Please speak with an Isha Representative for
more information.
“You can create the right kind of inner
chemistry not only to be healthy, but to be
peaceful and joyful by your own nature.”
– Sadhguru
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References
[1]http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2010/11/stress-in-america.aspx
[2] http://www.adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/children
[3] www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/yv-datasheet-a.pdf
[4] http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-trends/global-obesity-trends-in-children/
[5] http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/san-francisco-schools-transformed-power-meditation-n276301
[6] Carboni, J. A., Roach, A. T., & Fredrick, L. D. (2013). Impact of mindfulness training on the behavior of
elementary students with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder. Research in Human Development, 10(3), 234.
[7] Jensen, P. (2004). The effects of yoga on the attention and behavior of boys with Attention Deficit/hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD). The Journal of Attention Disorders, 7 (4), 205-216.
[8] Treuting, J., and Hinshaw, S.P. (2001). Depression and self-esteem in boys with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder: associations with comorbid aggression and explanatory attributional mechanisms. Journal of Abnormal
Child Psychology, 29 (1), 23-39.
[9] Peck, H. L., Kehle, T. J., Bray, M. A., & Theodore, L. A. (2005). Yoga as an intervention for children with attention
problems. School Psychology Review, 34(3), 415-424.
[10] Vempati, R.P. (2002). Yoga-based guided relaxation reduces sympathetic activity judged from baseline levels.
Psychological Reports, 90 (2), 487-494
http://www.adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/childrenhttp://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/san-francisco-schools-transformed-power-meditation-n276301